Manipulating water access was used by Saddam Hussein. Among the earliest interventions to benefit the people in Southern Iraq was to return water to the wetlands.
Daesh is no gift from god to form a caliphate. They are as brutal as the old dictator. One might say Saddam and his sons are reincarnated.
June 6, 2015
Islamic State (click here) militants have shut the gates to the Euphrates River dam in western Iraq, limiting the amount of water coming through, media reports have said. The tactic gives the group battlefield advantage, and has also sparked humanitarian concerns.
By reducing the flow of the water downstream, Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants have reportedly made it easier to cross the river and attack pro-government forces based further south....
Burning Daesh to the ground!
6 June 2015
Government forces (click here) and Shiite militiamen repelled two Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group attacks in Anbar province on Saturday, officials said. In one attack, they used anti-tank missiles to stop four would-be suicide car bombers.
Police and military officials said ISIS fighters attacked the government-held town of Husseiba with heavy mortar fire early Saturday. They say the attackers retreated after an hours-long battle, leaving behind three destroyed vehicles and five dead fighters. At least 10 troops and militiamen were wounded in the clash....
June 7, 2015
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – An Iraqi general (click here) says troops backed by Shiite militias have recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji from Islamic State militants.
The commander of the Interior Ministry’s Quick Reaction Forces, Brig. Gen. Nassir al-Fartousi, told state TV Sunday that the Iraqi flag was raised on a local government building in Beiji and that troops were advancing, without elaborating.
There was no word on the fate of the contested refinery on the town’s outskirts.
Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, fell to the extremist IS group during its blitz across northern Iraq a year ago, but parts of the town and nearby refinery have since been retaken by government forces.
The victories by the Iraqi forces are noted in several sources.
June 5, 2015
Daesh is no gift from god to form a caliphate. They are as brutal as the old dictator. One might say Saddam and his sons are reincarnated.
June 6, 2015Islamic State (click here) militants have shut the gates to the Euphrates River dam in western Iraq, limiting the amount of water coming through, media reports have said. The tactic gives the group battlefield advantage, and has also sparked humanitarian concerns.
By reducing the flow of the water downstream, Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants have reportedly made it easier to cross the river and attack pro-government forces based further south....
Burning Daesh to the ground!
6 June 2015 Government forces (click here) and Shiite militiamen repelled two Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group attacks in Anbar province on Saturday, officials said. In one attack, they used anti-tank missiles to stop four would-be suicide car bombers.
Police and military officials said ISIS fighters attacked the government-held town of Husseiba with heavy mortar fire early Saturday. They say the attackers retreated after an hours-long battle, leaving behind three destroyed vehicles and five dead fighters. At least 10 troops and militiamen were wounded in the clash....
June 7, 2015
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – An Iraqi general (click here) says troops backed by Shiite militias have recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji from Islamic State militants.
The commander of the Interior Ministry’s Quick Reaction Forces, Brig. Gen. Nassir al-Fartousi, told state TV Sunday that the Iraqi flag was raised on a local government building in Beiji and that troops were advancing, without elaborating.
There was no word on the fate of the contested refinery on the town’s outskirts.
Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, fell to the extremist IS group during its blitz across northern Iraq a year ago, but parts of the town and nearby refinery have since been retaken by government forces.
The victories by the Iraqi forces are noted in several sources.
June 5, 2015
American and allied jets (click here) are providing air
cover for a coalition of Iraqi forces that includes one of the most
feared Iran-backed Shia militias, which stand accused of grotesque human
rights abuses, The Telegraph can confirm.
Members of the Imam Ali Brigade are fighting alongside US-trained Iraqi
special forces in the battle for the city of Baiji and its oil
refinery, Iraq’s largest, special forces soldiers said.
Banners belonging to the brigade were also fluttering at the scene of
the battle. The fight is a vicious back-and-forth campaign being fought
both inside the refinery compound and the city, and in the desert
surrounding them, that has lasted almost a year.
Coalition jets have joined in to bomb Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant positions, both the troops and the Pentagon say.
Keta'ib Imam Ali is the same organization as the Imam Ali Brigade. It is Shi'ite. Al Sistani lead militias.
Keta'ib Imam Ali (click here) commander Abu Ezra receives Martyrdom Medal of Honour by Ayat. Sistani representatives in Kerbala
June 3, 2015
By Bill Roggio
A photograph (click here) of a commander in the Iranian-backed Imam Ali Brigade being honored by representatives of Grand Ayatollah Sistani demonstrates that even the ‘moderate’ segment of Iraq’s political class are supporting Shiite militias that are directed by Qods Force....
Keta'ib Imam Ali is the same organization as the Imam Ali Brigade. It is Shi'ite. Al Sistani lead militias.
Keta'ib Imam Ali (click here) commander Abu Ezra receives Martyrdom Medal of Honour by Ayat. Sistani representatives in Kerbala June 3, 2015
By Bill Roggio
A photograph (click here) of a commander in the Iranian-backed Imam Ali Brigade being honored by representatives of Grand Ayatollah Sistani demonstrates that even the ‘moderate’ segment of Iraq’s political class are supporting Shiite militias that are directed by Qods Force....
